Don’t forget to confirm your e-mail address!

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    cvcalhoun
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    Of the 38 people who have registered for Freezing Saddles so far, five have failed to confirm their e-mail addresses. Just to reiterate what is on the post announcing registration, the sticky, the registration form, the page you get to after you submit the registration form, and the e-mail you get after you register (seriously, people are missing all this?):

    [FONT=&amp]Once you submit this form, you will receive two e-mails. One will confirm all of your registration details. The second (which may go to “Promotions,” “Social,” “Junk,” or spam) will require you to click on a link to confirm consent to receive e-mails from us. [/FONT][FONT=&amp]Note that if you do not click on that link, you will not be registered for Freezing Saddles 2020. If you do not see that mail in any of the mailboxes mentioned, please [/FONT]send a private message to cvcalhoun on the forum [FONT=&amp]to let her know, so that she can add you to the mailing list manually and you will not lose your registration.[/FONT]

    This is particularly a problem for Gmail users. Gmail seems to send the confirmation e-mails to random places, or sometimes not deliver them at all. But you can easily fix this by sending me a PM.

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    secstate
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    This did indeed go to my Gmail spam folder. Gmail users can perhaps train the spam algorithm by selecting the message and clicking “not spam.”

    Thanks for managing registration again, Carol!

    #1101509
    Jenkinms
    Participant

    @secstate 194713 wrote:

    This did indeed go to my Gmail spam folder. Gmail users can perhaps train the spam algorithm by selecting the message and clicking “not spam.”

    Thanks for managing registration again, Carol!

    Gmail very explicitly trains their filters in this way, so if you got it in your spam folder, definitely mark it ‘not spam’

    Sent from my SM-G973U using Tapatalk

    #1101524
    Jessica Hirschhorn
    Participant

    You can do the same in Yahoo. Label the e-mail “Not SPAM” and it will revise the process going into the future.

    #1101530
    cvcalhoun
    Participant

    What I find mystifying is that a given provider will identify this as spam for some users, but not others. Gmail seems to be the worst, but it still gets through to some Gmail users. I’ve had a Hotmail and an AOL not come through today, even though other Hotmail and AOL users have received it.

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